The worst business exchange I have ever had in my entire life. I spent $10K on a hood for my restaurant. In total the job took over 5 months to compolete.
I talked to others in the industry they tell me that the going rate to install a hood is $1000 per foot. George and the team at Alpine charged me $10k for the 6 foot.
So the roof should have cost me $6000. I paid ten.
On top of that George uses the WORST clowns in the industry to subcontract work to. From Jesse who drew up the plumbing plans and got them rejected by the city of long beach. He didn't really know what the hell was going on.
To Raymond. Who codes all his blueprints to the city of LA. even though long beach has a very different code. He drew in a $6000 grease trap into my plans and an earthquake valve.
That little error cost me an extra $460 IT ALMOST cost me and extra $6460. I had to fight the city for the plans in order to approve the small grease trap.
George doesnt care though, Once he has your money YOU WILL NEVER SEE HIM ...
Then he has the nerve to INSTALL THE WRONG fan on the roof. ANOTHER 2 week delay there.
THEN after he sent people back again. (Mind you the contractor he sent was like 19 years old and didnt know his a*s from his elbow. )
They uilt the exhaust too close to the vent ... then I had to call them BACK to move it.
Plus the contractor he works with "Macco Construction" is over priced and just subcontracts work. Plus one time A check cashing place called me to verify a check for "Macco" What kind of reputable business man doesn't use a bank and uses a ghetto check cashing place.
On top of that George added another $900.00 to my final bill and couldnt really explain what it was for.
Also once you get his cell phone number, and your right and he knows he doesn't have a leg to stand on HE SIMPLY DUCKS YOUR CALLS.
George is too busy making money on other projects more important than yours.
George is responsible for the worst 4 months of my life! His shoddy subcontracting and "I dont care about your project because its small potatoes" attitude literally left me on the hook for 5 months paying rent for a store that would not open.
To top it all off the oven he sold me had no racks in it. And the deep fryer he sold me GOES OUT mysteriously during a lunch rush.
Oh on top of that I had to pay for MY OWN air uptake test ANOTHER $500! ( He only provided a test when his incompetent comany installed THE ENTIRELY WRONG Fan on my roof.
My friend is in this business told me "He installed the wrong fan, thats about as incompetent as it gets"
$10k is the biggest purchase I've ever made.
In my mind the clowns at Alpine owe me at least 4 months of rent.
Ask around theres other people who install hoods.
ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE A-Z
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Efty
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